Global Patent Index - EP 1197013 A2

EP 1197013 A2 20020417 - METHOD FOR INCREASING THE COVERAGE AREA OF A BASE STATION

Title (en)

METHOD FOR INCREASING THE COVERAGE AREA OF A BASE STATION

Title (de)

VERFAHREN ZUR ERWEITERUNG DER VERSORGUNGSFLÄCHE VON EINER FESTSTATION

Title (fr)

SYSTEME DE COMMUNICATION

Publication

EP 1197013 A2 20020417 (EN)

Application

EP 00946189 A 20000721

Priority

  • GB 0002819 W 20000721
  • GB 9917272 A 19990722

Abstract (en)

[origin: GB2355626A] A technique for increasing the range of the receiver of a time division multiple access communications system in which the receiver has to identify the timing position of the timeslots in signals received from different other transceivers of the system. Each transmitted timeslot includes at its end a predetermined buffer period in which no useful data is transmitted. The receiver analyses a selected captured portion of the received signal at each of a set of predetermined time delays or offsets relative to the start of the captured signal portion to try to identify the timing position. The maximum timing offset for the timeslot position search after the start position of that search is extended to be greater than the predetermined buffer period at the end of the timeslot thus allowing timeslots with greater delays to be received. The receiver also searches for the position of the received timeslots B on the assumption that the start position 9 of the those timeslots will be delayed by a predetermined time period 12 relative to the start position 11 of its transmission timeslots A.

IPC 1-7

H04B 7/26

IPC 8 full level

H04B 7/26 (2006.01); H04L 1/00 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP)

H04L 1/0083 (2013.01)

Designated contracting state (EPC)

AT BE CH CY DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE

DOCDB simple family (publication)

WO 0108315 A2 20010201; WO 0108315 A3 20010816; AT E498953 T1 20110315; AU 6006200 A 20010213; DE 60045633 D1 20110331; EP 1197013 A2 20020417; EP 1197013 B1 20110216; GB 0018029 D0 20000913; GB 2355626 A 20010425; GB 2355626 B 20020116; GB 9917272 D0 19990922; PT 1197013 E 20110314

DOCDB simple family (application)

GB 0002819 W 20000721; AT 00946189 T 20000721; AU 6006200 A 20000721; DE 60045633 T 20000721; EP 00946189 A 20000721; GB 0018029 A 20000721; GB 9917272 A 19990722; PT 00946189 T 20000721